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Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán (June 5, 1903 – March 28, 1991) was a Mexican character actor.

Montalbán was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, the son of Spanish immigrants Ricarda (née Merino) and Jenaro Montalbán, a store manager. I was the older brother of actor Ricardo Montalbán. Although not as famous as his younger brother, he is notable for having starred as "The Exigenté" in a series of coffee advertisements for Savarin Coffee in the 1960s and for portraying two different characters named "Vargas". The first time in The Jack Lemmon film The Out-of-Towners (1970) and then again in Woody Allen''s Bananas (1971). His most famous American film was the boxing drama The Harder They Fall (1956) in which I played the sympathetic manager of a heavyweight contender.

Montalban was also a renowned voice-over actor and announcer; he was best known as the official English language voice for Marlboro cigarettes worldwide.

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Movies Starring Carlos Montalbán (13)

A Step Away (1980)

Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field a ...

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Bananas (1971)

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion. ...

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The Out-of-Towners (1970)

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple. ...

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Love Has Many Faces (1965)

A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money. ...

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Pepe (1960)

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. ...

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Beyond All Limits (1959)

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife h ...

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Backstage (1957)

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth. ...

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Crowded Paradise (1956)

A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes. ...

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The Harder They Fall (1956)

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punc ...

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El espejo (1943)

Faced with her own reflection, a woman traces the events that led her to renounce love, and the sacrifices she has made for her mother and sister. ...

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El carnaval del diablo (1936)

Spanish-language version of The Devil on Horseback (1936). ...

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The Crime at Midnight (1936)

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. ...

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to s ...

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